Gullane Junior Golf - Home of the US Kids European Championships - No 1 for Junior Golf !

East Lothian Junior League and Strokeplay Champions 2009 & Junior League Champions 2012, Scottish Girls Champion 2010, Scottish Amateur 2010, Home of the US Kids European Championship, British Girls Home Internationals and Amateur Champiopnship 2011, Developing Talent & Growing the Game, clubgolf for 7 years, Babe Zaharias & Honor Bright Trophies at Gullane Primary School, Scottish Girl Internationalists, Boys U16 Internationalists, Boys U18 Internationalist,141 Junior Members, St Andrews Boys Open Winner 2011, Scottish Schoolgirls Champion 2012

Monday, 31 January 2011

Junior Winter League 2010 / 2011

Lesley and Alexander post a good win on Sunday away to The Glen - giving away strokes

Fraser Edgar & Fraser Christie lost to Lesley Atkins & Alex Wilson 2/1

We now sit on top of the League with 5 from 5

Men's team regained top spot in their League with a fine win too



Gary Reid & Jim Jack lost to Scott Walker & Keith Millar 4/3
George Thomson & Colin Pattison beat Fraser Syme & Murray Saunders 3/2
Mike Currie & Chris Timms lost to Ross Thomson & Alan Smith 3/1
Innes Christie & David MacKinnon halved with Mike Corrie & Robert Jack
Barry Ford & Graeme McCann lost to Duncan Low & Laurie Main 4/3

Well done the old geezers !!

Next matches

13th Feb Haddington away 11am
20th Feb Longniddry away 10.30am 

East Lothian Secondary Schools League

The East Lothian Junior League website contains the East Lothian Secondary Schools 
League fixtures for 2011. 


School teams are made up of 6 players, boys or girls, 
max handicap 24. 

Players that would like to be considered for their school team should contact the 
following people at their school:

North Berwick: Clare Parry/Drew Langlands. 
Dunbar:  Paul Huish. 
Knox:  Andy Lambert. 
Musselburgh: Stacey Ramsay/Dave Parker. 
Preston Lodge:  Ian Selwood/Grahame Bennion, 
Ross High:  Mark Urwin.

EAST LOTHIAN GIRLS 2011

GIRLS - DO YOU DREAM OF PLAYING ON A WINNING SCOTLAND TEAM OR DO YOU 
WANT TO PLAY GOLF AND MAKE FRIENDS WITH GIRLS THE SAME AGE AS YOU? 

If so, all the fixture dates, are listed on the East Lothian Junior League website in
 the section marked Events. 


Just search using "EL County Girls" and all these events should appear.

If you have a handicap and would like to play alongside other girls in East Lothian come
and join the East Lothian Ladies County Golf Association. Junior membership is only £5! 
Print off the entry form from the EL site 

Are you interested in playing golf and keen to work towards getting a handicap? Come 
and join the East Lothian Ladies County Golf Association as a Junior Affiliate member 
for only £2. This will enable you to play in 9 hole competitions with other girls without 
handicaps. For more information please contact or if you are interested in helping out 
with the Junior programme, contact LesleyNicholson on: 

Tel. (Home) 0131 665 5738 Tel.(Mobile) 07921 298 017. Email  lesleynic@live.co.uk  

Or speak to your Girls Captain Lara Frostwick 

CRUDEN AND GOLF FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTE FUNDS TO EAST LOTHIAN 2011 COACHING FOR JUNIORS



Cruden Investments Ltd and the Golf Foundation, through "Golf Roots," have
each generously contributed to the cost of the 2011 coaching programme.
Our thanks are due to both these benefactors and we will keep them informed.
 Ric Foulner and Lesley Nicholson will soon be contacting Convenors
looking for names. 

Friday, 28 January 2011

Junior Winter League 2010 / 2011

Lesley & Alexander are turning out on Sunday v The Glen - planning to keep our 100% record going - and looking to support our Men's Team who are also looking to plan to go top of their league by beating the Glen

Congrats to Greg & Michael who won last week 4&3 v Royal Musselburgh on G1 giving away 19 shots !

Monday, 24 January 2011

CASTLE STUART LINKS TO HOST BARCLAYS SCOTTISH OPEN


NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE EUROPEAN TOUR

The European Tour has entered into an agreement with Castle Stuart Golf Links, situated between Inverness and Nairn on Scotland’s Moray Firth coast, which has been confirmed as the venue for the Barclays Scottish Open. The 2011 Championship will be played from July 7-10.

Castle Stuart Golf Links will be the seventh Scottish course to play host to the prestigious tournament since 1972; following in the footsteps of Downfield, St Andrews, Haggs Castle, The Gleneagles Hotel, Carnoustie and Loch Lomond Golf Club, which staged proceedings over the last 15 years from 1996 to 2010.

The ground-breaking trip to the Highlands also begins a two-week festival of links golf which spans the entire length of the United Kingdom, as it is followed by The 140th Open Championship at Royal St George’s in Kent, England; the fortnight perfectly showcasing the best of what is new in links golf at Castle Stuart as well as celebrating the heritage of the links game at Sandwich.

The prize fund for the 2011 Barclays Scottish Open remains at £3 million and to claim the first prize of £500,000, the players will have to conquer a new golf course which has received worldwide praise since its official opening in the summer of 2009.

Co-designed by Managing Partner Mark Parsinen – who was also responsible for the design of Kingsbarns in Fife – and American golf course architect Gil Hanse, the course was voted as Best New Course for 2009 by Golf Magazine USA while Ron Whitten, writing in the December 2010 issue of Golf Digest USA, stated that “Castle Stuart might be the most perfectly conceived and executed design ever built.”

Italian Edoardo Molinari will defend the title against a stellar field including Graeme McDowell, the 2008 champion, and Phil Mickelson, winners of the US Open and the Masters Tournament respectively in 2010, and three time Major Champion Padraig Harrington, who have all, at this early stage, committed to playing at Castle Stuart in July.

European Tour Chief Executive George O’Grady said: “It is always exciting to break new ground and everyone at The European Tour is delighted to be staging one of our most prestigious events at a new venue which has been so widely acclaimed.Our Members already enjoy competing at Kingsbarns on The European Tour International Schedule and I am sure they will eagerly anticipate testing their skills against the Mark Parsinen-designed course at Castle Stuart. Loch Lomond were extremely courteous and supportive during our negotiations to move forward with the Championship and we will all take away some wonderful memories of our time there and we wish them well in the future.
This year’s venue might be young, but we are delighted to maintain our strong relationship with Barclays for whom this is the tenth year of its title sponsorship of the event. Such a level of involvement speaks volumes for their overall commitment, not only to The European Tour but to golf worldwide. We congratulate Barclays for the vision in supporting the Barclays Scottish Open at such an outstanding venue for championship golf.”

Course co-designer Parsinen commented: "I fell in love with links golf in the British Isles 40 years ago and have spent the past 15 honing certain links sensibilities, firstly with the crafting of Kingsbarns in Fife and now with Castle Stuart in the Highlands. 
“All of us involved with Castle Stuart know what a privilege it is to host the Barclays Scottish Open as the first stop in a two week celebration of links golf in the British Isles." 

Tim Peat, Managing Director, Barclays Capital, said: “Scotland as the home of golf has a history of developing and presenting world class golf courses and tournaments, and the Barclays Scottish Open has always sought to reflect that pedigree.I would like to thank Loch Lomond Golf Club, its management, owners and members for hosting the Barclays Scottish Open over the past nine years. Loch Lomond's exceptional green keeping combined with its superb organisation and hospitality has delivered memorable and exciting golf and made the Barclays Scottish Open an essential part of the golfing calendar.We have always received requests from professionals to host the Barclays Scottish Open at a links course and we are delighted The European Tour has selected Castle Stuart. We look forward to working with the team at Castle Stuart and our partners at The European Tour to continue to deliver a world class tournament. We are confident this new links course will be a fantastic venue for the golfing public and our clients to watch the world’s best golfers compete for the Barclays Scottish Open.”

This will be the tenth year that Barclays has participated as title sponsor and will continue its involvement with The European Tour, a commitment which also extends to its title sponsorship of the Barclays Singapore Open at Sentosa Golf Club, a co-sanctioned event with the Asian Tour, which was won last November by Australia’s Adam Scott.
As well as the support of Barclays, the tournament has also garnered widespread backing from the public sector agencies in the local area, namely Highland Council, the Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Visit Scotland, Event Scotland and Scottish Development International, all of whom who have pledged their support and assistance.

Advance tickets are now on sale for the 2011 Barclays Scottish Open with significant reductions available on tickets purchased before the end of March. For full details of these ticket offers and other events on The European Tour, please visit www.europeantourtickets.com or telephone the Ticket Hotline: +44 (0) 800 023 2557; fax +44 141 887 0223. Please send postal enquiries to European Tour Tickets, Mirren Court Three, 123 Renfrew Court Three, Paisley, PA3 4EA.

Saturday, 15 January 2011

Apprentice Greenkeeper

Apprentice Greenkeeper

Gullane Golf Club require
a Full Time Apprentice Greenkeeper
Applicants must be reliable and enthusiastic and have ability to work with and learn from a dedicated team, training will be given. Closing date 21 January 2011, Applications, together with CV, in writing or by email only to
Stewart Duff Course Manager
Gullane Golf Club West Links Road
Gullane EH31 2BB sduff@gullanegolfclub.com

Monday, 10 January 2011

Junior Winter League 2010 / 2011

We are undefeated so far from limited games played  so must be top of our Junior League !

Here are the remaining fixtures

Gullane v Royal Muss Jan 23
Glen v Gullane Jan 30
Hadd v Gullane Feb 13
Longniddry v Gullane Feb 20 ( clash with Stableford )
Gullane v Longniddry March 6

Pairings will follow

Best wishes to Liberton in Spain !

Liberton came along the coast to play us on No 3 before heading off to Spain as Scottish Team Champions to play in the Home Nations Final - an excellent achievment for them to qualify with only 45 junior members, seeing off the pride of East Lothian along the way.

We played a stableford match with Liberton winning 5 matches to 3 - hopefully it will be a bit warmer in Polaris World !! We wish them well and look forward to a return match in Edinburgh later in the season.

Here are the results

Lesley Atkins 35  bt Anthony Blaney 27
Alasdair Simpson 34 lost to Ross Munro 35
Greg Houlston 28 lost to Scott 30
Michael Williams 34 bt Daniel Eardley 23
Duncan mcLean 30 lost to Fraser Christie 34
Scott Gillies 30 lost to Thomas Brock 38
Graham Swan 27 lost to Chris Taylor 35
Jamie Black 37 bt Kieran Cantley 32

Winter Stableford - 4th January - No3


Name 1st Medal  2nd Medal Total
Jamie Black 27 37 64
Clara Young 30 34 64
Duncan McLean 32 30 62
Graham Swan 35 27 62
Patrick Maher 43 43
Lesley Atkins 35 35
Alasdair Simpson 34 34
Craig Spinks 34 34
Michael Williams 34 34
Oliver Ladbrooke 31 31
Scott Gillies 30 30
Scott Young 30 30
David Black 29 29
Richard Yarrow 29 29
Greg Houlston 28 28
Jack Dunlop 27 27
Charlotte Munro 27 27
Charles Cave 24 24
Anthoney Blaney 0 0
Fraser Thain 0 0

Here are the scores and cumulative totals 

Boys CSS was 68 ie 36 points - away scores please return to your h/c secretary - Patick in particular !! 

Remember 2 best scores out of 3 count overall so most of you still in the running but Patrick looks favourite with 43 points in bag - or does anyone else care to dispute that ?! ( Jamie ? ) 

Some good scoring from Lesley & Clara too and good to see a couple of youngsters braving the cold and turning out for 6 holes 0- Euan Stenton and Matthew Brady !! 

Final leg takes place Sun 20th Feb 12Noon on No 1 

Great to get good turn out midwinter - lets keep it going 

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Winter Stableford / Match v Liberton

Quick reminder re this on Tuesday 4th - courses now clear of snow and perfectly playable so be good to see you whether or not you played in the first Winter Stableford in Oct
 
11.30 tee off on No 3 . Everyone is encouraged to come into the Members Clubhouse and have refreshments / food in the Mixed Lounge afterwards
 
Here are the scores from October
 
Graham Swan 35 
Duncan McLean 32 
Clara Young 30 
Richard Yarrow 29 
David Black 29 
Jamie Black 27 
Charlotte Munro 27 
Charles Cave 24 
 
Match v Liberton 

Here is our squad for match v Liberton on Tuesday which we will combine with the Stableford 
 
Greg
Michael
Lesley
"Sergio" Simpson
Duncan
Graham
Jamie
Scott
Olly
Tom
 
They will have 8 but I'll work out a way of everyone having competitive game - on stableford basis
 
Please turn up afor 11am and warm up
 
Food afterwards avail in Mixed Lounge
 
Iain 

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